N2Growth Blog
MAY 3, 2021
Darrin Williams , CEO of Southern Bancorp, may have been a little surprised when a world-class business school professor came knocking at his door. She wanted to know more about Darrin’s story and this relatively small, regional, Arkansas bank. Should Southern Bancorp consider a public offering in the red-hot IPO NYSE market?
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 20, 2018
Katzenberg recently hired Meg Whitman, the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2 billion dollars in the bank, it plans on jumping right in. Tech IPO prices and subsequent trading prices were disconnected from revenue and profits. IPOs dried up. And it may work.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2016
I learned the importance and challenge of focus early, when I served as CEO of a startup called Intralinks. ’” Later, Intralinks decided to try to IPO. So we decided not to IPO. After that, one bank stepped forward to lead another private round of funding. We went on a public road show in August 2000.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
There’s an interesting fact about companies with these kinds of moats or competitive advantages that often gets overlooked: the turnover rate of CEOs among the S&P as a whole is between ten and twenty times higher than in the big entrepreneurial successes of the past few decades. The odds aren’t favorable.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Uber’s value is estimated between $48 and $70 billion, despite reporting losses over the last two years.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 17, 2017
Banks are feeling the crunch; according to McKinsey , legacy financial institutions will see profits decline 20%–60% by 2025 if they fail to evolve digitally. CEOs will need to shift their mindset now if they want to avoid their own “Kodak moment.” This focus on people is key.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 29, 2018
In June 2017 longtime CEO Jeff Immelt resigned under unrelenting Trian and shareholder pressure, and John Flannery took over as CEO. Many have strategy heads, who are ex-dealmakers at investment banks, whose default assumption is that if the company has a performance problem, the natural fix is to buy and/or sell something.
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